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Welcome to Face2Face Africa quiz series that tests your knowledge of Africa and anything African. We ask ten questions based on themes ranging from politics, history, geography, culture, entertainment and many more.

Today, we are all about African literary giants. Brace yourself, no cheating, get your thinking cap on and test your knowledge of this:

Poll 1. Also sharing the name Ngugi, this prolific but less known Kenyan writer co-authored one of the most influential works in modern African literature, "I Will Marry When I Want" with wa Thiong’o in 1977?

Nducu wa Ngugi

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ

Ngugi wa Mirii

Wanjiku wa Ngugi

Poll 2. This man pictured below is considered the Father of Swahili Literature?

Farouk Topan

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Professor Ali Alamin Mazrui

Muhammed Said Abdulla

Poll 3. This poet pictured below was an influential figure in the Black literary scene across the African Diaspora. His work spawned a generation of black writers and activists across the world?

Keorapetse Kgositsile

Chinua Achebe

Dennis Brutus

Dambudzo Marechera

Poll 4. One of these books was not written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o?

Weep Not Child

Season of Anomy

Decolonising the Mind

Detained, A Writers Prison Diary

Poll 5. The Ghanaian woman below was one of the most underrated African women achievers within the creative arts scene?

Ama Ata Aidoo

Mabel Dove Danquah

Efua Sutherland

Akosua Busia

Poll 6. The widely acclaimed novel “The Joys of Motherhood” was written by?

Grace Ogot

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Ama Ata Aidoo

Buchi Emecheta

Poll 7. She co-founded the Writers’ Association of Kenya, after having served as a UN delegate for Kenya in 1975 and subsequently, as a member of the UNESCO delegation in 1976?

Margaret Ogola

Grace Ogot

Wangari Maathai

Muthoni Likimani

Poll 8. All these memoirs were written by Wole Soyinka except?

The Man Died: Prison Notes

Detained, A Writer’s Prison Diary

Isara: A Voyage around Essay

Aké: The Years of Childhood

Poll 9. This lady below is one of Egypt’s most celebrated female writers. In 1981, she was thrown into prison by order from the then president of Egypt, Anwar al Sadaat?

Ahdaf Soueif

Miral al-Tahawy

Radwa Ashour

Nawal El Sadaawi

Poll 10. He is most remembered for his non-violent campaigns against the government, his influential works of fiction which mocked Nigerian society and predicted his death and his unjust execution?